Sentences with phrase «war battle when»

Steven Spielberg's atmospheric drama stars Tom Hanks as an American lawyer who's drawn into a Cold War battle when he decides to defend a Russian spy.

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During the Battle of the Bulge in World War II, when the German Ardennes Offensive threatened to swallow up a surrounded American division at Bastogne, Patton pushed his men through mud and snow and relieved Bastogne on Dec. 26, 1944.

When an illness forced General John Stark, the state's most distinguished Revolutionary War hero, to decline an invitation to the 32nd anniversary reunion of an important battle, he instead sent a written toast to his wartime comrades.

Here's a clue: when it comes to investing, they don't mind losing the battles, confident they will win the war.

The US is stepping back from the Middle East, leaving the region to be engulfed by a Sunni - Shia conflict that resembles Europe's Thirty Years War, when Lutherans and Catholics battled for supremacy.

But unlike the usual price war — when prices get lower and lower in order to win customers away from the competition — this long - lived battle only sees prices go up and up.

October 19 is also the anniversary of the end of the War for Independence, when the Americans and French won the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.

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Such imagery was prevalent in ancient creation myths, and typically, when the gods of these myths set out to bring order to the chaotic waters, they did so through war, battle, and violence (Greg Boyd, God at War, 159 - 16war, battle, and violence (Greg Boyd, God at War, 159 - 16War, 159 - 164).

They could have used this for military advantage in a battle with their long - term enemies, the Medes, but instead it appears that they used it to engineer a lasting peace, because when the darkness interrupted the fighting, they said that the gods were demanding an end to the war.

In the cosmic war between God and His rebelling creation, the first battle was won by God in Genesis 1 when He pushed the chaos back by His mere word.

When I had a «discussion» with one of my sons when they were small we compromised on a way forward through a deal, you might call it an unwritten contract, binding on both sides, I could have beaten the living daylights out of him, but that would have not solved the problem, I may have won the battle but not the When I had a «discussion» with one of my sons when they were small we compromised on a way forward through a deal, you might call it an unwritten contract, binding on both sides, I could have beaten the living daylights out of him, but that would have not solved the problem, I may have won the battle but not the when they were small we compromised on a way forward through a deal, you might call it an unwritten contract, binding on both sides, I could have beaten the living daylights out of him, but that would have not solved the problem, I may have won the battle but not the war.

Is our grasp on history so faint that we have forgotten the last time we intervened in Afghanistan to support the Mujaheddin in their war against the Soviets and then left when we thought the battle was won?

In 2007, on the hundredth anniversary of Pius X's anti-Modernist encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Peter Steinfels used his column in the New York Times to suggest that the encyclical was a «revival of the battle against liberalism that the papacy and much of the church had been waging throughout the nineteenth century — and tragically the purge the encyclical started crippled those very elements in European Catholicism that might have resisted the Church's sympathy for authoritarian regimes after World War I, when liberal parliamentary governments were besieged by rising totalitarianism.»

It seems that that battle has already been fought, during World War I, when General Allenby drove the Ottoman Empire out of the Holy Land.

In an earlier book, What Went Wrong, published shortly after September 11, 2001, Bernard Lewis outlined the gradual triumph of Western science, technology, ways of making war, learning, and culture over Islam since the naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, when the Christian league decisively defeated the Turks.

The Confederate battle flag, a potent symbol of racism since the mid-twentieth century, had hardly been used at all for such purposes before World War II, when the Klan started using it.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

When Jonathan was later tragically killed in battle, the love of David in mourning is expressed in one of the finest war laments ever written, «I am distressed for you my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women».

His death is the nobly lost battle that is prelude to final victory in the war; when the resurrection comes and others take up the struggle for justice on Christ's behalf.

Rowan sold jars at Homecoming and held the official public unveiling of the line on Oct. 24 when cast - iron - stomach competitors battled it out in «Wing Wars» at the Glassboro branch of Chickie's & Pete's, a popular restaurant in the Philadelphia region.

Manchester United and Manchester City's little war after yesterday's game at Old Trafford is a real throwback to some great Premier League battles — back when players cared a little more.

When you're trading half your roster and all of your assets for a superstar that A) doesn't want to be there longterm, B) is recovering from a potentially chronic injury, and C) has never won an MVP... maybe fighting that battle means you've already lost the war.

I knew immediately that when the battle and war were lost, that our dear old manager would claim a moral victory, having been the only team to have done a double against «the champions».

An Olympic year is more like a whole lifetime in the brief competitive career of a U.S. girl swimmer, when every battle becomes a war.

We need to consolidate our depth in key areas to ready ourselves for when this battle turns into a war.

Unfortunately, when you do this, you are creating a battle of wills, a tug - of - war between you and your child in which no one wins.

Maybe he was returning the kindness that was bestowed on him during World War II, when he and two other members of the Navy were plucked out of the ocean after a losing battle, his son said.

De Blasio paused at times when he recounted the absence of his own father, who lost a leg in World War II during the Battle of Okinawa, and returned a broken man who became an alcoholic and eventually split with his mother.

The war of combative strong - worded statements between Democratic Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Republican Rep. John Katko that began during the summer resumed with a new battle yesterday when Miner hinted she may reconsider her pledge to not challenge the congressman in the 2018 midterm elections.

The two warring sides in the education battle — Cuomo and the teachers union — have reached something of a détente, at least when it comes to policy issues.

The battle escalated into all - out war last summer when, at the end of the legislative session, de Blasio blasted the governor as a «game - playing» bully more interested in political scheming and personal advancement than the city's well - being.

When the veterans of World War I, on both sides of the political divide, returned from the front in 1918 and 1919, they came back as battle - hardened soldiers.

The battle to succeed scandal - scarred Rep. Charles Rangel erupted into a last - minute, internecine race war when the Rev. Al Sharpton blasted opponents of his favored candidate as «Negroes you ain't...

Americans have always recognized the value of science to foreign policy — even during the Revolutionary War when commanders of the opposing forces allowed U.S. and British scientists to move back and forth across battle lines.

Rain Dates Nearly 400 battles were fought during the Civil War, though rarely on rainy days, when it was hard to move cannons and horses over soggy ground, Charles Hosler says.

If you're following me on Instagram and watched my stories you might know that I'm a big Star Wars fan, one who watches the entire trilogy at least 2 - 3 times a year (and the battle scenes of the prequels every now and then) and one who was skeptical when Disney first acquired the movie rights but was eventually content after watching The Force Awakens, though not completely satisfied as to why that movie was even necessary in the first place.

The distaff side won another battle in the age - old war against male fuzz this month when is a free online dating site where guys with beards can find suitable dating partners who are into the scruff.

Synopsis: When a German U-571 submarine with a sophisticated encryption machine onboard is sunk during a World War II battle at sea, the Allies send an Ameri... [MORE]

PLOT: The Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham (Meryl Streep) and executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) do battle with the Nixon White House when they opt to publish «The Pentagon Papers», a damning, leaked history of the United States» involvement in the Vietnam War.

The battle scenes extraordinarily reconstruct the horror of war in a time when seeing the whites of your enemy's eyes was a tactical necessity.

Special kudos must be given to film editor Michael Kahn, whose facility with these completely unhinged battle sequences should shame anybody who's ever worked on a Michael Bay movie; to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, who has given these scenes a dull grey cast evocative of nightmares torn from America's sleeping subconscious brain; and to sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who has crafted a World War II soundscape that rattles and unnerves you even when your eyes are closed.

Synopsis: When a German U-571 submarine with a sophisticated encryption machine onboard is sunk during a World War II battle at sea, the Allies send an American Navy force led by Lieutenant Andrew Tyler (Matthew McConaughey) to retrieve it for study.

«The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies» (2014) Box Office Take: $ 955m 21st Century Box Office Ranking: 23 When the «Lord of the Rings» series arrived at the start of the century, their tactility, wit and humanity served as a blessed relief for epic fantasy fans after the airless «Star Wars» prequels had disappointed so.

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As grownups those two remain as besotted with the military — or at least, the military of their war - film fantasies — as they were when they battled with toy guns.

But when the tourist's true intentions come to light, what follows is a tense battle across some of America's most forbidding landscape proving the old adage: the purest form of war is one - on - one.

Although shooters always run the risk of watering down their core modes when they add new gametypes, War Mode succeeded in proving that a PUBG match can still entertain without the Battle Royale gameplay loop.

His tit - for - tat battles with Northside gangster Moran (Ralph Meeker) turn into a full - scale war when Chicago's Mafia Don (and Capone's boss) is knocked off in a power play.

Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) is a dowser, a man who can find water in the Australian desert — a talent he will later employ when he goes searching for the bodies of his three sons, all lost on the same day in the disastrous World War I battle of Gallipoli.